Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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QUOTE 12: Conventional operation
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business…
QUOTE 10: Collaborative support
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker
Quote 15: Cloud Strategy
A cloud platform isn’t an additional element that you add to your IT portfolio. It resembles full-on IT outsourcing more than IT procurement. Cloud Strategy – A Decisions-Based Approach to Successful Cloud Migration by Gregor Hohpe
QUOTE 13: Change and uncertainty
Strategy in conditions of uncertainty, complexity and change has a very different look to it. On the one hand, strategy must lay out the vision and incentives that determine the evolutionary direction in the enterprise – a complex adaptive system. On the other hand, it must allow for constant learning and updating of models and…
QUOTE 9: Leadership
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. Nelson Mandela
QUOTE 1: Crisis
A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored. ― MICHAEL CRICHTON, AUTHOR, BOOK QUOTE FROM THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN